A condom-covered Thai restaurant that is more concerned with birth control than food.

At a Bangkok bistro, one pot of beef stew has been cooking non-stop for more than 45 years.

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

This natural history museum houses one of the world's largest rat kings, a terrifying jumble of tangled rodents.

This riverside restaurant has been serving customers since 1146.

Romans decided this 16th-century "talking statue" was so ugly, they named it after a primate.

Flowers have mysteriously appeared on her effigy every day for the last 150 years.

This fortress played a key role in the battle that would ultimately give rise to the Maratha Empire.

These medieval funerary monuments are now home to a colony of critically endangered vultures.

Step into a cartoon at this Seoul café that aims to evoke a two-dimensional scene.

In Phetchaburi, Thailand, a roadside vendor cooks his fare with 1,000 mirrors and the power of the sun.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

The first patented shaved-ice machine heralded a snowy wonderland of iced treats at a favorite New Orleans summer shack.

The floor of this spectacular Baroque sanctuary is covered in memento mori.

A monument to Malchik, a stray dog who lived in a Moscow metro station until his tragic death.

This historic pub has maintained much of its 1906 decor, including a small sequestered room for women, where orders were slipped through a tiny window.

This pair of running lions engraved on animal bone is one of the earliest artistic depictions of big cats.

Charlie Smith was almost certainly not 137 years old when he died, but why let that get in the way of a great story?

Made from local Irish moss, this pie is served only in Prince Edward Island's potato museum.

This centuries-old wooden wonder was built in less than a year and is one of Europe's largest timber-framed churches.

The most northerly active sand dunes in the world have some very rare botanical residents.

A miniature desert appears out of nowhere on the lush isle of Lemnos, like something out of a Greek myth.

Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.